The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."

Europe is going to build camp where they will concentrate undesirables before getting rid of them. I wonder if there's a term for that? This is no different than the MAGA plan for White supremacy. The EU can pretend it's better all it wants. It is not.

I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.

I guess periodic reminder that AFAIK there’s no real evidence grades correlate to learning/knowing/understanding/really anything at all in any kind of meaningfully generalizable way.

I do still think you should vote for me, but also come to my matchup for @anniezaleski.bsky.social’s moving meditation on finding the right guitar and sacrificing for your freedom.

Twin Cities folks, especially UMN: on March 5, with no warning, the U announced it is closing the Boynton Health Dental Clinic, which provides dental care for faculty, staff, and students. Petition to stop the closure can be found here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/um...

As you've noticed we are not tipping off any games this weekend (we're taking weekends off this March), but the first round will resume on Monday with Nirvana vs Sinead, Tori vs Wilco, Cranberries vs Cat Power, and Eric Clapton vs Grandpaboy

Calling all forces of twee-ness, aid me now, sad cute Scots are in need of your votes

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I’m maybe sad because of what I wrote about but mostly I’m sad about being up against Lauryn Hill. But I am still sad around being a teenage Belle & Sebastian fan, so you can read about that too.

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Fresno Unified student protests continue near downtown ICE office. Police called to break up altercation Students from multiple Fresno Unified schools walked out of school Tuesday afternoon, converging on City Hall in downtown Fresno. According to a student interviewed by Fresnoland, the walkout…

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

This has become a key part of my classes that include WW2. The Nazis were almost entirely dweebs and losers who were disliked and uncompetitive, unleashing resentment at people who were smarter and more charismatic than they were. The “evil super genius” shtick is all a fiction.

Gavin Newsom is an incompetent transphobic centrist who is unfit for elected office. His repeated failures to protect the basic human rights of his own constituents is clear misconduct in office. He should be impeached immediately.

“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”

Just pondering AI-usage/Ozempic/gym-obsession as part of a grand unified psy-op to encourage alienation from self and others, and as a backdoor to introducing far-right self-image to otherwise non-inclined people. Interacting with this stuff feels increasingly out of joint, and that seems telling.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

This is happening Thursday!!! I would love to see folks come out to this

Twin Cities! Two FREE abolition related events happening next week/weekend! On Thursday, September 11 at 6pm, the Committee to Free the Mississippi Five is showing Calls from Home, and a panel after w/ Garrett Felber and our incarcerated comrade Loretta Pierre. www.eventbrite.com/e/calls-from...

Wow it’s Fresno and Saint Paul working together

When we were all supposed to support the Ivies as bulwarks of academic freedom despite their elitist disdain for everyone else and then they go full Quisling anyway…almost makes u think that they didn’t care about academic freedom or the purity of knowledge in the first place…

I think about this quite a lot insofar as it gives the lie to two writing extremes: academia on the one hand and social media on the other. Both, interestingly, are supposedly about writing-as-thought, in a mediated way on the one hand and an immediate way on the other.

Important to note that this is true at public universities as well. I haven’t met a single non-affiliated Minnesotan who knew how UMN was run, anything about the insanely conservative slant of the Board, or that it had all purposely been constructed to prevent any kind of democratic oversight.

You love to see elite (and elitist) institutions demand support from the larger academic community they actively disdain and disparage and then turn around and flush it all down the toilet in order to preserve a cozy relationship with the ruling power. Almost like it’s not actually about knowledge…

everyone who said we shouldn't abolish ICE should spend some time thinking about the mistaken ideas that led them to that incorrect take

Thinking about how Ho Chi Minh knew how to make Parker house rolls and Boston cream pie.

The logistics that ICE will be asked to handle here are nightmarish, and they are already finding difficulties in multiple locations with their current budget. ICE is deeply unpopular, and they can very quickly become the most loathed group in the US, with people getting bolder in resisting them

University gen AI training is presented as addressing a deficit in us. Staff and students need to be taught how to use it ethically and responsibly. But the problem is with the technology itself. It’s inherently unethical and irresponsible: extractive, imperialistic, delusional, and unsustainable.

This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

Spoken like a true Midwestern sports fan.

since i'm apparently already feeling angry and vindictive today it feels like a good time to ask where the "don't call Trump fascist" debate has landed, you know, post-secret police

Hey Twin Cities folks! A coalition of library workers is rallying to push for a budget increase for Minitex, the state-wide resource-sharing org that saves school, public, and academic libraries hundreds of dollars a year, and which is in danger from IMLS cuts.

When are Kyra Sedgwick and Meg Ryan making a late middle aged lesbian Western together

Pope Francis staying alive long enough to insult JD Vance is an amazing exercise in will. May his memory be a blessing.

There's scholars of fascism making a big show of moving to Canada so that they don't "get out too late", and there's scholars who are publicly defending the students actually threatened by both the Trump and University administrations. Sharp divide between theory and praxis in resisting fascism here

The Signal fiasco is obscuring an essential question: Why is the US bombing Yemen? — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In so far as it's a sign, it's a sign that elite academics enjoy mobility that 99% of their colleagues do not, given the absurdities of the academic labor market. If you wanted the "direst sign of bad things to come," that was probably when Mahmoud Khalil got detained.

Individual teachers cannot be expected to solve this problem, and the challenge requires us to get to roots of a system that students see as purely transactional (for good reason) and for which AI can fulfill the transaction. Putting this on individual teachers is simply unfair.

Karl Marx died on this day in 1883. "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."

When the University of Minnesota is working to pass a policy making it basically not allowed to speak publicly about “current events” without the prior approval of the president’s office. That’s the kind of courage you love to see from universities in blue states

I hate the framing “this deportation puts Jews at risk.” It is wrong to deport a permanent resident for their constitutionally protected speech. Mahmoud Khalil is *immediately* the victim of terrifying state repression.

Why Fresno County could hurt more from Medicaid cuts than most of the country fresnoland.org/2025/03/11/m...

The elitism and eugenics rhetoric being thrown around in regards to TX and the measles outbreak is troubling and dehumanizing. “We in the south are a multicultural populace held hostage by voter suppression, gerrymandering to high hell, and the failures of legacy media establishment…” -Dr. Seema

I get that people are freaked out, and rightly so, about the attack on academic freedom and universities more broadly, and also, it absolutely matters that we drop the pretense that’s been at the heart of “higher ed” in this country for at least 50 years. When the fashies talk about shutting down

Not really sure how this follows since private institutions with endowments in the billions will weather the storm far better than already-defunded public colleges that serve more than a tiny elite. I’d argue it’s more consistent to support public science and oppose higher ed elitism.